RE: UK has had a lot of unelected PM's13 Jun 2023 10:16
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The final sentence of your editorial “MPs must save the UK from Johnson’s no-deal Brexit folly” (August 14) refers to our current prime minister, Boris Johnson, as “unelected”. That is true, in the sense that he has not (yet) won a general election. But in their time so too were Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, James Callaghan, John Major, Gordon Brown and Theresa May “unelected”, though Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Major and May did later win general elections.